Freightliner Cascadia

Veteran trucker Ron Phares won a flat-screen TV, DVD player and power converter for his Freightliner Cascadia as a grand prize package in a promotion named the 12 Days of Christmas, said Troy, Ill.-based Truck Centers Inc. Phares, an owner-operator and resident of Springfield, Ill., also garnered other prizes, the total for which is valued at $900.
Nearly 500 customers at seven of the family-owned dealer group representing various Daimler Trucks of North America entered the ...

Perkins Specialized leased owner-operator Dick McCorkle (pictured) was there, or at least within a few miles of there, when jet airliners were flown into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center complex on Sept. 11, 2001. Specifically, he'd just delivered to a trade show at 42nd St. and 7th Ave., near Times Square. "I was delivering New York City for three or four years there," he says. "At one point in time, ...